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Richard Rodgers Centennial Celebration on The New Jazz Thing! Thursday, June 27, 2002
| Richard Rodgers Centennial Celebration on The New Jazz Thing! Thursday, June 27, 2002 from 6 to 9 pm PT |
 | 6:00 pm PT - Intro and Fred Hersch |
| Intro Schpeel on Rodgers |
| Fred Hersch Tune by Rodgers |
| Fred Hersch - Interview |
| Fred Hersch Picks A Rodgers Tune and Rendition |
| 6:30 pm PT - Howard Mandel |
| Tune - Howard Pick |
| Intro and Talk About Howard's Pick |
| Chat |
| Pre-Interview Notes |
| On Rodgers: "...he was simply a great melodicist, whose tunes are simple enough to make a lasting impression, and so strongly structured as to allow for broad variation without being diminished in any way." |
| On Rodgers tunes by others: |
| "besides Trane's My Favorite Things -- and Betty Carter's extraordinary version on Inside Betty Carter, and "Thou Swell" and "I Could Write a Book" -- and Miles D's "Surrey with the Fringe on Top" |
| Betty Carter also sings my favorite versions of those tunes. . . currently on the bootleg cd The Bebop Girl, but I think included earlier on an Impulse! lp, "Social Call." |
| I presume you have "My Favorite Things The Jazz Giants Play Rodgers & Hammerstein" from Prestige. . . I should add another fave of mine, "Johnny One Note" by Bob Dorough. |
| Tune - Howard Pick |
| 7:00 pm PT - Lee Ann Westover |
| Tune - "I Wish I Were In Love Again" - Lascivious Biddies (featuring LW) |
| Intro and Chat |
| Pre-Interview Notes |
| VO: Do you have any favorite or recommended Jazz versions of Rodgers compositions? |
| LW:Absolute favorites: |
| Blossom Dearie: Surrey with The Fringe on Top |
| Ella: Bewitched |
| Favorites in their original versions: |
| Many a New Day and Oh What a Beautiful Morning from Oklahoma! |
| GOD THEY'RE GORGEOUS!!!! |
| VO: Why is the music of Richard Rodgers so special and enduring? |
| LW: What a complicated question. The best songwriters in my opinion find a perfect balance between bare, honest lyrics, poetry and melody...each one holding as much weight as the other. Rodgers and Hammerstien or Hart musicals to me are perfect like that. As a singer, the words are easy to pull feeling from, and the melodies are just plain fun to sing!!!! |
| Tune - Lee Ann Pick - "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered" - Ella Fitzgerald |
| 7:30 pm PT - Will Friedwald |
| Tune - Will's Pick of 'My Funny Valentine'. |
| Intro and Chat About First Pick |
| Author of Stardust Melodies which features an entire chapter on 'My Funny Valentine'. |
| Chat About Rodgers and MFV. |
| Tune - Another Will Pick of 'My Funny Valentine' |
| 8:30 pm PT - Don Sickler |
| Tune - Don's Pick - Miles - "I Could Right A Book" |
| Intro and Chat About First Pick |
| Chat about Rodgers |
| Don's leading a tribute band at The Jazz Standard in NYV 6/27 and 6/28. He's running home to be with us after their second set. |
| His role / desire to keep American composers work alive. He's a publisher. |
| Setup For Next Tune |
| Tune - Don's Pick - Bobby Timmons - "I Didn't Know What Time It Was" |
| "If I Loved You" - Charlotte Church (traditional) with Rhasaan Roland Kirk (jazz) |
| Setup with tune, any Rodgers comments on it, etc. |
| Charlotte's version |
| Rhasaan's version |
| Manhattan |
| "Then Sterling Holloway and June Cochrane sang Manhattan in one (that is, in front of an unadorned curtain). There was no question about the audience liking it: the performers had to give several encores, and could have done even more had Larry written extra choruses (a lack he would quickly remedy)." |
| "I just wonder how Larry did write Manhattan. Now I know. He wrote it on a dirty envelope four minutes and twelve seconds before the show opened at the Guild Theater.Larry says he realy worked on the song, polished it as it grew from a todpole to a frog." |
| Dick Rodgers, Herald Tribune 03/21/1926 |
| "This little-known set (reissued on CD) from 1956 features singer Annie Ross four years after she originally recorded "Twisted" but a year before the formation of Lambert, Hendricks & Ross. Based in London at the time, Ross avoids scatting and vocalese in favor of conventional swinging and jazz-oriented interpretations of standards." |
| Scott Yanow |
| Jazz 88 Library Code: ROS-AN-04 |
| Spring is Here |
| "The show's title song, by the way, is not the well-known ballad recorded by Frank Sinatra and many others. It's a flighty, upbeat tune with an undistinguished lyric and remarkable only for one thing: it is one of the few istances of Rodgers and Hart writing two completely unconnected songs withb the same title." Oops. Not tonight. |
| With a Song In My Heart |
| Sonny Clark |
| Duke Ellington - Ellington Indigos |
| My Funny Valentine |
| Miles Davis - Complete Prestige |
| Jazz 88 Library Code: DAV-MI-32 through DAV-MI-35 |
| Chet Baker with Gerry Mulligan Quartet |
| Jazz 88 Library Code: MUL-GE-12, MUL-GE-13, MUL-GE-14, MUL-GE-31 |
| Google Search |
| Lascivious Biddies - Lee Ann Westover |
| Frank Sinatra |
| I Didn't Know What Time It Was |
| Not in Jazz 88 CD Library. Check LPs |
| Lee Ann Westover's Pick |
| Jazz 88 Library Code: FIT-EL-08 |
| Thou Swell |
| Howard Mandel |
| Howard Mandel Pick |
| Jazz 88 Library Code: DOR-BO-02 |
| Miles Davis |
| Howard Mandel |
| Astrud Gilberto |
| For Madeleine |
| Cinderella (something) |
| For Cindy and Mom and Dad |
| replaced in Jazz 88 Library by... |
| Howard Mandel Pick |
| Jazz 88 Library Code: COL-JO-48 thru COL-JO-53 |
| Howard Mandel Pick |
| Jazz 88 Library Code: CAR-BE-09 |
| Edelweiss |
| The Sweetest Sounds |
| I Could Write A Book |
| Don Sicker pick. |
| Jazz 88 Library Code: DAV-MI-32, DAV-MI-33, DAV-MI-34, DAV-MI-35 |
| Howard Mandel Pick |
| Not in Jazz 88 CD Library - Check LPs |
| Howard Mandel Pick |
| Not in Jazz 88 CD Library - Check LPs |
| Jazz 88 Library Code: VAR-PP-27 |
| Jazz 88 Library Code: VAR-PP-21 |
| Which of the full Rodgers musicals is your favorite? |
| For Jazz musicians, was there a difference in Rodgers compositions before and after Lorenz (Larry) Hart? Seems like more tunes pre-Hammerstein are covered. |
| What is the whole idea that his compositions were 'simple'? Almost sounds condecending? |
| A nice little bio, with a long section of "Scores by Richard Rodgers". Looking good. |
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